Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We do have some challenges in the whole area of accessing equipment. Equipment today is very expensive, and there is a requirement, if we are going to have our students enter into these areas, for modern equipment to be available for them to be trained on. Equipment today has a lot of technology associated with it.
It is our intention to look at partnerships. It is a mechanism by which we could look at accessing equipment. As a matter of fact, it is interesting that the Member should raise it. Just today, I met with the directors of the Yellowknife Chamber of Commerce, who are interested in this whole area and seeing how they can play a role and participate in this area. They expressed their interest in ensuring that our facilities do have the appropriate equipment for students to train on. We discussed this at some length, of seeing how we could proceed and the kind of partnerships they could formulate with this.
We do have certain space availability in various locations, some of the central locations in the larger communities. The difficulty is that the equipment is out of date. That is what has to be upgraded if we are going to proceed with this. Our interest is there to work towards ensuring that we get that. Thank you.